"Don't get your hopes up," Said the people I trust. More easily said than done. It's been a hard lesson. There's something wrong When one becomes Reluctant to f...

You used to spread your wings only when no one was looking, And when you finally trusted me enough to reveal them I slowly ripped them off What have I done? Who...

Second chances only create even more seconds to wait. Everyone starts over. Turns a new leaf. But you're weak. And even the weight proves much too heavy when yo...

Standing over a fault line with a foot planted on either side, With the only world I ever knew balanced on one shoulder, And a heart I'm just getting used to be...

Follow me to solace and safety Over the tar-blackened river and past the gleaming yellow eyes I hope I'm right this time I can't lose any more of you tonight Th...

To rid the earth of the filth To rid the earth of the lies To will the rise above Tearing my insides out I feel my soul go cold Only the dead are smiling To r...

Everyone sees through you How do you sleep at night? Translucent eyelids don't keep out the light Eyes that bulge apathetically From your engorged (yet empty) h...

When you gaze into your polished metal plates You picture the face of a man who longs to see his soul But claws are claws, whether sharpened or painted or blunt...

In the distance, they are circling I watch them go around and around, never tiring The one near death is hypnotized and closes it's eyes One last time Patiently...

At times, when my mind wanders with my feet, My thoughts reach their destination before my body Like a recurring dream, I find myself traveling to lands I thoug...

This planet is a single sea And we have crashed into it's solitary island. The shores roll like boiling sand against the waves. Rain comes down in constant shee...

This frustration is mounting, And my greed is so overbearing It seems as if I'm never satisfied With the precious things I possess Could it be that this means ...

I always wanted to tell you I needed you But now I'm glad that I never did, Because I never lied about that... at least. It probably would have scared you, anyw...

I use the rags of betrayal and the fuel of desperation to light a fire This temper is lost upon me, though it is sure to find you momentarily I cannot afford to...

Time likes to flirt with me He knows I'm watching as he passes He is merciless with my lust He won't give me the satisfaction of glancing back my way I can't s...

In a world of such complex pathways we all feel lost No one could ever understand your directions They used to be crystal clear But they've been smeared by all ...

A transparent heart can't hide it's blackest wish Even blood, pounding deceit, only makes your motives clearer Your scheme to conceal the desire may be wise, Bu...

You attempt to find what you're looking for in vacant corpses Never understanding that you have to bury the things you love when they are dead You've cut too de...

To my nemesis, my confidant: Do not expect me to make more requests I have done penance for my sins You're in debt to me one thousand promises Just yesterday, ...

It may feel like it's too much to handle, But it's not time yet Your body operates, automatic, Like a breathless engine, It shines in the swimming haze and heat...

You've wasted me Nothing loves, nothing dreams Nothing bleeds inside of you You've washed me away Isn't it nice how it's all so clean when it was once so dirty?...

I've been so afraid, my love, I must confess so afraid I've given in to this sickness of invisibility I exist now only in a memory I fear the simplest things li...

When night seems to wrap me in exhaustion, and I keep wishing I could start the day again, sleep takes it's sweet time finding me; it's always bittersweet, it u...

Sun shines pale through window, Through the ghosts that dim this town Arms that hold you burn off like fog in the heat of the sun Do not mistake them for flesh ...

Beautiful gray masks the sky was the rain falls down And I wish that I could assure you of comfort and content, but I'm still so far away We have to take life a...

If you still don't believe that I can restore myself under your crown, Then watch me as I decapitate this serpent head of vanity I used to be wary of you, now I...

Every city is a ghost town where I see remnants of us that will never fade Because they'll never see the light The streets remember our footprints. Maps made in...

Now, listen. Because I've listened to you. Your voice, your words. And the music behind them. And all of it sinks in and weighs me down. Finds my heart. And bre...

Love is an anchor that holds me to the shores of sanity I will not drift away to the sea of oblivion It cannot be told by words or held in an embrace It can onl...

Even when I was younger, I could feel your slimy sculptor's hands Shaping every uneven feature of my body after your fantasies Forever crafted to a silent, exce...

There's something else circling overhead now, A different kind of creature, bigger, out in the distance. I'm following, watching, and I find myself again Undern...

When her body gave into that sickness again (She always knew it would), She didn't want to say a thing for fear That if he knew, he'd never risk Getting even th...

Lying here, inside a song, it seems, inside every song I've ever read Written not by a bloodthirsty man, but a shock-hungry trend; Rags of flesh discarded on th...

Thick hands released his victim's hair, as she slumped over, I saw her slender fingers numbered, one to ten. He sliced each from their knuckles. Is taking a lif...

He clasps the crag with crooked hands Deformed from gripping the rock so tight Close to the sun in lonely lands But the wax never melts from his wings Ringed wi...

Even when I was younger I could feel your slimy sculptor�s hands shaping every uneven feature of my body after your fantasies Forever crafted to a silent Excess...

You will find that some of the most exquisite eyes Mask the cruellest secrets A villainess in a goddess disguise I grew to easily distinguish your lies Your glo...

Risking all alludes with having nothing to lose I can't bear to hold these lids like Atlas and his world of burdens I can't bear the weight I have too much on m...

A flash brighter than lightning overhead, But my town is asleep So they don't see my father coming home I imagine him walking in the middle of this night All th...

As a child, Monsters always haunted your panicked dreams This time you're the vampire, And though it's cruel reality, You're still trapped in a suffocating fant...